[birdmanrulez]

So I found the original freespace about 7 years ago on an old computer and fell in love with it. You can imagine my surprise a few years later when I found a Freespace 2 and my GREATER surprise when i found that a community came together and maxed the textures on every ship and then some. The amount of stuff going into this is enough to blow any gamer's head off. Then I realized, why can't we promote Freespace 2 Open Source?

I'm volunteering a few weekends to spend a couple hours making a nice advertisement for this awesome game. Thanks to my new graphics card, I can run FreeSpace 2 in full texture with 2048 X 1152 res without any lag, perfect for hypercam vid captures.

I really want to credit all the people in this, so if they could step forward and reply to this thread, or if someone could point them out to me, that'd be great. ANY IDEAS that anybody can contribute for an idea of the advertisement would be great.

Another request I have is if anyone with a good graphics card, and textures maxed, could record some awesome clips they think would look good in an ad. I can only come up with so much creativity, so please express your best FS2 moments in these clips. Best format would be highest quality mp4 Microsoft 1 codec, unless you are using hypercam, then the avi is fine.

I have Pinnacle 14, one of the best movie makers out there, so i can do some nice special effects, if anyone would like to suggest something cool, that'd be great as well.

On a side note, if any groups of people who make mods could respond to the post with the mod name and a name of their group, so i can capture some nice footage from that mod and credit them, that'd be great.



"The best type of shivan juggernaut is the one with 1% health, no turrets, and a few beam cannons to dice it up into shivan sushi"

[achtung]

Hmmm.

Mock TV ad or some kind of elongated exposition/ad video?

[The E]

Umm.

Crediting all people might be a bit cumbersome. Crediting "Past and present members of the Source Code Project and FreeSpace Upgrade teams" might be the better option.

[bigchunk1]

I think FS is underrated too, I know how you feel...

I was thinking of making a user friendly "How to install and play FSO" video... maybe add some tips on how .VPs work etc, but It's just a thought so far. I know that was the hardest thing for me to break into FSO.

Where would the advertisement go? On Youtube? There's a lot of FS vids there.

 

[birdmanrulez]

I guess I could say entire fs2 community, but it'd be nice to put some names up there, maybe the main people who started this(not limited to one name per page of course)

As for the ad type, I don't know what elongated exposition is, but it would be about 2-3 minutes long maybe, have many fs2 scenes and some voice acting from them, text banners, and some other things.

Btw, thanks to the new java installer, all you need to do is specify the fs2 retail directory, update the launcher with the mods, and you are done with installation. And yes, it will go on youtube as well as my company website and a few other websites. I can ask for it to go on some gaming site too.(gamefaqs, machina, etc.)

[CommanderDJ]

Make sure to include some eyecandy, such as beamz.

Oh, and I reckon "DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!" would be a nice clip to include - highlights the tension and how gripping the game is.

[birdmanrulez]

Make sure to include some eyecandy, such as beamz.

Oh, and I reckon "DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!" would be a nice clip to include - highlights the tension and how gripping the game is.

oh trust me, the first clip i recorded (NightBlade campaign/mission) involved a karuna(me) firing some nice gauss cannons and a deimos in return carving me up =.= of course im going to cut up the video footage, considering i let myself be diced by those two corvettes.

And yes, that was one of the BEST parts of the campaign, on my first try i hit my afterburners while moving TOWARDS the juggernaut, you can guess where that led to...

[The E]

Seems like you just want to create a trailer using in-game footage. There are a few vids that have usable footage.

Like this.

And yes, it will go on youtube as well as my company website and a few other websites. I can ask for it to go on some gaming site too.(gamefaqs, machina, etc.)

Okay, excuse me for being skeptical here, but what is "your company website"? And is your ability to get it on gaming sites greater than that of the average person?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Don't just limit to FS2 mods.  If it's about FS2_Open then the TC's should be included as well.  I don't think I have the ability to capture for TBP but I'm sure someone does.  Might be able to get a short Diaspora clip we didn't use but need to check with Kara first.  

[birdmanrulez]

Seems like you just want to create a trailer using in-game footage. There are a few vids that have usable footage.

Like this.

And yes, it will go on youtube as well as my company website and a few other websites. I can ask for it to go on some gaming site too.(gamefaqs, machina, etc.)

Okay, excuse me for being skeptical here, but what is "your company website"? And is your ability to get it on gaming sites greater than that of the average person?

I am creating a trailer, yes, and it will be with in-game footage and hopefully some cutscenes from some of the larger campaigns. That video you gave me is one of a few that is available in 1080p, which means i can download a full res vid straight from youtube, which is what im looking for. There aren't many videos that go full res from what I've looked up. Besides, a lot of these are gameplays, mostly of actual campaigns, but rarely do people show epic scenes and playing like this. Another feature i would like for the vids to have is for a lot of them to NOT have the HUD on, like the vid you linked (shift-O ingame). Thanks for the link, I'm probably going to use that video as well.

My "company" is really something i started in 6th grade, called DreamBird Productions. Really, its a multi-use website thats been needing a good redesigning, i'll make sure to finish it before posting the vid there. Here is a LINK to it, it may or may not be available right now, I'm putting it back online just for anyone who wants to see it. And as for the gaming websites, I find that asking nicely combined with the fact that it will be a good vid that i will show them will work well. Its worked well before, and I don't see what will stop it now.

Don't just limit to FS2 mods.  If it's about FS2_Open then the TC's should be included as well.  I don't think I have the ability to capture for TBP but I'm sure someone does.  Might be able to get a short Diaspora clip we didn't use but need to check with Kara first.  

Forgive me for forgetting the acronym TC, Ive seen it somewhere before but I forgot its meaning. I'm assuming it means other campaigns and missions and mods.  I welcome a variety of them, but in the end only so much can go into a video, unless of course you would suggest I make separate ads for each of the campaigns and mods in addition to this, which is a pretty good idea come to think of it... As for capturing video, Hypercam2, though glitchy sometimes, is a good video screencapture software. However a good graphics card is a must for recording while capturing good-quality video. speaking of good quality video, does anyone know of something better than hypercam2?

[Rodo]

TC stands for Total Convertion, meaning taking ONLY the engine and creating content to use in a stand alone release.

The release itself will not require for any player to have FS installed, as it will provide the game engine bundled with the assets created for said TC.

or so... 

[birdmanrulez]

TC stands for Total Convertion, meaning taking ONLY the engine and creating content to use in a stand alone release.

The release itself will not require for any player to have FS installed, as it will provide the game engine bundled with the assets created for said TC.

or so... 

Are you telling me half of my friends DIDN'T have to buy/pirate fs2 to play those TC mods? thats just mind-boggling

[General Battuta]

To my knowledge, so far only The Babylon Project is a true standalone release. Diaspora will be. (The Beyond the Red Line demo was also standalone.)

This sounds awesome. Good lucK! What's NightBlade?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

If you have friends that can't afford $6 bucks to play FS2 that's even more mind boggling.

[Rodo]

Are you telling me half of my friends DIDN'T have to buy/pirate fs2 to play those TC mods? thats just mind-boggling

yeah, still getting FS2 is not that hard... only 6$ and most important as GB said there are only a few TC's released.

[Jeff Vader]

To my knowledge, so far only The Babylon Project is a true standalone release. Diaspora will be. (The Beyond the Red Line demo was also standalone.)

Wuddabout WCS? They're standalone too. Right? And FotG should probably be.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I was just covering my territory but in my opinion WCS forked so fork them.

[Spoon]

TC stands for Total Convertion, meaning taking ONLY the engine and creating content to use in a stand alone release.

The release itself will not require for any player to have FS installed, as it will provide the game engine bundled with the assets created for said TC.

or so... 

Total conversion =/= stand alone
To take Wings of Dawn for example...

[Satellight]

Maybe you will be interested to see this.
Apart from the awful quality, this video reflect the smell of a good trailer.

I wish to you best luck, I made a video of my best moment with friends, and it take me 40 hrs for 5 mins (In order to perfectly fit the music, with the pics & vids inside. And because I'm sadistically perfectionnist. Yup.).

I'm ESPECIALLY proud of this video. And you know why ? Not because it's the best on the planet, but it's because every person who were watching it were laughing at it (and that was the goal).

In fact, the perfect video trailer for FreeSpace will be a watchable-by-everyone video. When I talk to some people about FreeSpace (or videogames in general...), some are TOTALLY not interested. But if they SEE FreeSpace in action, in a nice HD movie  !!! I think they'll resist NO MORE to the attractive power of this game.

[General Battuta]

I think any trailer needs to be shorter than that, with a bit less text. Punchier.